Automated Custom Item Design Interface for Waste Reduction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Manufacturing of custom items is inefficient and wasteful, with existing processes placing a burden on resources and generating significant waste that is rarely recycled or repurposed, especially in the luxury goods market where increased customization options exacerbate waste production.

Innovation Solution

An automated system that standardizes data from multiple sources for custom item design, optimizes material layouts, and renders two-dimensional models for user configuration, allowing for real-time design and manufacturing while reducing waste by utilizing locally sourced materials and recycling potential waste products.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If manual custom design procedures are used to provide customization options, then customer satisfaction increases, but waste production increases and resource efficiency decreases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecustomization optionsVSAvoidwaste production

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces manual mechanical design procedures with an automated computer-based system that uses algorithms to optimize material layouts and generate designs, eliminating the need for manual iteration and reducing waste

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes material parameters and layouts automatically through computational optimization, allowing customization while minimizing waste by finding optimal material configurations that reduce excess

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Adaptability or versatility

If increased customization options are provided in luxury goods manufacturing, then market competitiveness improves, but waste production increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecustomization optionsVSAvoidwaste production

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary computational optimization of material layouts before manufacturing begins, determining the most efficient material configurations in advance to minimize waste generation throughout the production process

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

Manual design processes are replaced with automated computational systems that can evaluate multiple design options and select optimal solutions that reduce waste while maintaining customization

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Adaptability or versatility

If manual design and manufacturing procedures are used for custom goods, then flexibility is maintained, but productivity decreases and resource burden increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedesign flexibilityVSAvoidmanufacturing efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

Manual design and manufacturing procedures are replaced with automated computer-based systems that perform calculations, optimize layouts, and control manufacturing equipment, dramatically increasing productivity while maintaining design flexibility

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides dynamic, real-time design modifications and optimizations through automated computational processes, allowing flexible customization at high speeds without the constraints of manual procedures

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

4Adaptability or versatility

If traditional custom goods procedures are used, then design freedom is maintained, but infrastructural and human resource burden increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedesign freedomVSAvoidinfrastructural burden

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The automated system performs multiple functions including design generation, material optimization, layout determination, and manufacturing control within a single integrated platform, reducing the need for separate infrastructural components and human resources

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS20240338499A1Real-time electronic custom item design interface for manufacturing

Publication Date: 2024.10.10 STACKLAB

AI summary

A system, method, and computer program product that includes a processor(s) standardizing data from sources that includes details for materials for integration into a custom-designed item. The processor(s) store the standardized data in a consolidated data set one or more databases accessible to an API. The processor(s) trigger the API, based on a selected in a graphical user interface communicatively coupled to the API, to query the one or more databases to obtain select data from the consolidated data set about a portion of the materials that could potentially fulfill a parameter for the custom-designed item. The processor(s) optimize the select data, to determine one or more physical layouts for the portion of the materials in the custom-designed item. The processor(s) render and display a two-dimensional model of the custom-designed object with the one or more physical layouts implemented into the custom-designed object.